How to Integrate and install WordPress on an Intranet

WordPress can be installed on a remote server, on a local server, and also on an intranet of course, but how? Let’s see the peculiarities of this type of facilities, special.

What is an Intranet?

Basically a restricted content navigation and viewing network, installed on a local or company server to which, normally, only users connected to that server will have access .

Why install WordPress on an Intranet?

WordPress makes a lot of sense in an Intranet , because it facilitates the creation of web applications of all kinds, and will allow you to offer a multitude of resources in your company:

Department Blogs

Social network for employees

Surveys

Collaboration sites

Management sites and projects

Directory of departments and employees

Download documents (payroll, regulations, etc.)

It comes to be the same, but in the cloud . Think of it as a private access zone, which can reach any user who knows the address but where you can only interact if you have specific access permissions.

What we are going to see about how to use WordPress in an Intranet is the same for an Extranet.

How to install WordPress on an Intranet?

To know how to install WordPress on an Intranet, think of it as a local installation so, depending on the type of server, you will have to install it depending on the operating system that manages the network: WordPress on Windows, Mac or Linux

Basically, in any system, it goes through the use of some installer of the Apache + MySQL + PHP base , such as LAMP (for Linux), WAMP (for Windows) or MAMP (for Mac).

Once installed and activates the necessary base for the local environment to function as a server (Apache, MySQL and PHP), WordPress is installed as usual.

What else do I need or can I do on an Intranet with WordPress?

From here I will recommend some basic plugins, useful, even essential, to add functionality to an Intranet in WordPress.

With its own name, this plugin offers specific and essential features for any Intranet or private site worth its salt:

Privacy – with a single box you make your site completely private so that nobody can see it if it is not connected. In addition, it shows notices if some adjustment of WordPress allows users to register on their own.

Redirection when accessing – define any URL to direct your users after accessing, the desktop is irrelevant on an Intranet.

Automatic disconnection – you can define a period of inactivity, after which the users will automatically be disconnected, something essential.

A plugin specialized in adding functionality to your Intranet to allow access to your Office 365 users , only to them.

Although the plugin can work both on the Internet and in the Intranet , when you are on an Intranet it ensures the front page and the desktop verifying if the user can identify with the active Microsoft Azure directory .

If you can then you are allowed to access the requested page, otherwise you will be redirected to the normal WordPress access page.

If you have the previous plugin to access the Google Apps (Google Suite) of your company, with this other plugin your employees can search for employees of the corporate directory , for which it also includes a widget.

Connect SharePoint Online and Office 365 using the Office 365 access plugin we have seen before (required).

It allows users to search for documents, workspaces, any Sharepoint Online element , from your WordPress.

Although it is not a plugin but a theme, this special theme converts any site or subsite of your Intranet into a complete work environment for your computers, so it deserves to be included in one of the first applications that you can give to your Intranet.

Hundreds more possibilities

In addition to the plugins we have seen, any other plugin and theme that works for WordPress you can use it on an intranet , from themes to simulate social networks, private areas, everything. The limit is your imagination and the needs of your company.

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